Hey Dan here and in this video I'm taking a little bit of time out of my
vacation here in Spain to talk about how you can design your life around your
personality type now if you've been following me if you're on my email list
you know that this is an area I'm extremely passionate about
in fact my email training the free training I give away is called the life
design approach and it's all about exactly how you can design your life
around your personality type and of course your passions and what you really
want to be doing as well with your time so first thing I want to cover here is
that usually when people don't have the life they want to have when they're
dismissing their goals it's because they're asking the wrong questions it's
when they're focusing on what they can't do they're asking the question why can't
I achieve this or what are my weaknesses and that's the wrong question what you
want to do is flip that around first figure out your outcome what is it you
want to achieve what is the life you want to have and then ask knowing my
personality knowing my strengths how can I achieve
this it seems like a small change but this one change makes a huge difference
in how you think so you accept how you are you accept your personality type
your strengths your weaknesses but rather than focus on the weaknesses and
say hey I could never do this because of X Y or Z you focus on your personality
on the strengths and say knowing my strengths knowing who I am how could I
actually achieve this so often this requires pulling back going to a higher
level so when you're thinking about your life or business decision or anything
else there's usually different levels right this is where the same the big
picture comes from so you have the big picture which is looking down at
everything and then you kind of get lower and lower into the minutia the
details and usually it's getting stuck in the details where we get lost and so
pulling back to really what you're trying to achieve really what is the
purpose of what you're trying to do often helped solve this problem so let
me give you an example let's say somebody wants to start a YouTube
channel they think that is their goal right they say well I want to start a
YouTube channel I want to have a bunch of followers and build out this channel
but I'm really shy I'm really awkward on camera
just not my personality I hate being filmed I hate making videos well what
have you pulled back so right now they're focusing on YouTube and they're
saying because I'm shy because I hate video I can't do YouTube but if you
really look at that goal is their goal to be on YouTube or is their goal to
build a community to have a group of followers to spread their message to
share their voice if you pull back to this bigger goal the
why behind doing YouTube which is probably just what I said right building
a community helping people spreading a message if you focus on that and say
okay my goal is to spread a message it's to help people it's to build a community
then you open up a lot more possibilities well what if they did a
written blog what if they did an audio-only podcast what if they were to
do some other kind of content right there's lots of different ways to make
content that don't require you to be on video so that's the first thing now of
course they could also look at getting over those fears developing their video
abilities all that stuff as well but if that is assumed to be somewhat permanent
and nothing really is but let's assume it's somewhat permanent and they have
those fears and just aren't good on camera then there's other ways to
achieve the same overall outcome the same feelings right the feelings of
community sharing a message helping people all that stuff so let me give you
another example from my own life now I hate cold calling
if you don't know cold calling is it's in business when you're making cold
calls sales calls to people who aren't expecting you right so it's either
calling people up or going door to door and say hey buy what I got to sell right
and some people love that some people get to throw a lot of it I hate it I've
always hated it now for years I tried to convince myself I could do it I read
books I got pumped up I listened to more jay-z than just about anyone on the
planet just to get enough kind of confidence and energy to make a couple
cold calls it is not my thing now eventually eventually I did myself
the favor of accepting this and saying okay I hate cold calling but what's my
real outcome well my real outcome is to get clients right my real outcome is to
get business and girl business it's not to cold-call
cold-calling is a tactic to achieve a goal it is not the goal and so pulling
back and looking at the overall goal I was able to reassess how I did business
and I started to look at things like inbound marketing an expert positioning
which is where I focus my creativity something I do quite well in terms of
making presentations and content about at that time I was a copywriter so I
made presentations about copywriting and marketing strategy this attracted people
to me so I didn't have to hard sell I didn't have to cold-call same outcome
though I got new clients I grew my business so I achieved the same outcome
but did it based around my strengths rather than getting stuck in my
weaknesses and feeling just god-awful every day while I was doing it now what
I found in my experience is you have two kinds of people when it comes to work in
style you have project based people and consistency based people consistency
based people are the people who are great at like writing a blog once a week
or actively maintaining something maybe it's uploading three videos a week or
whatever that is they're very good at kind of ongoing consistent action other
people like myself or more are more project based which means we're really
good at exciting challenging projects and then we sort of take a break we're
not good at consistently doing the same thing now I came to realize this about
myself and pretty much have given up on maintaining a blog yes if you go to my
site you'll find some articles I update from time to time but I realize that
consistent kind of once a week article writing that's not my thing I'm more of
an just call it an inspired writer or whatever it is and I'm just disorganized
in that part of my life in terms of consistently putting out content yet I
can finish a book where most people can I can sit down and in a couple weeks
really focus and get the draft of a book done I'm very good at big projects
terrible at consistency so knowing that and accepting that about myself I
changed how I do business I focus on bigger things I focus on
putting together an entire book or making a large video based training
course things like that rather than trying to do you know one video a week
small bits and pieces I try to focus make one really great thing every three
months or something like that and it's generally been working a lot better for
me of course YouTube here is the challenge of trying to be consistent
with videos and so far I think I'm doing decent but we'll see how I how I push
myself here to break through that challenge as well so just to recap when
you want to design your life around your personality type and why wouldn't you of
course you should do that you've got to pull back and ask yourself the right
questions think of your outcome as your overall goal don't think of how to get
there don't get stuck on the how think of the why in the what where you want to
get to what your outcome is and then look back and think okay knowing my
strengths knowing who I am how could I achieve this in a way that's suitable
for my personality and it might be a different way than other people are
taking or a different way than you had in mind but it will get you to that same
outcome so here in the comments section I want you to share one thing for me
I've shared a lot about myself I want one thing shared from you and that is
what is one weakness or tough spot for you that you've stubbornly tried to
overcome where now maybe you're thinking it's better to find a different way to
achieve the goals rather than keep fighting the same battle keep swimming
upstream that you're gonna find a better way to do it so share that below in the
comments if you've enjoyed this video of course do subscribe I've got lots more
coming out on life design and personality type and yeah as I mentioned
at the start of the video if you're into this concept of life design and really
setting up your life around who you are then do head over to my site if you
haven't already and subscribe to the free training I have the life design
approach it's a nine part email training totally free and that's it
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